Rightminded wrote:This is another BS hype non-issue story. Tell me how you can function in 2013 without some valid form of ID? I don't care where you live or who you are, It's BS. And I don't want to hear about an 88 year old woman. If she can cash a check, is on SS or can see a doctor, she has an ID. Spin it all you like.

It's not just any old ID. The laws always specify some special ID that Republicans think will exclude lots more Democrats than Republicans.

For example, most of the laws don't allow student IDs, because students lean toward Democrats. But country club membership cards and gun registrations would probably be OK. In fact, some of the laws name gun registrations specifically as valid ID.

It's not about identifying the voter, it's about electing more Republicans.

There's nothing wrong with requiring ID from voters. But it can be phased in in a way that doesn't disenfranchise legal voters. Republicans just don't have any interest in doing it that way. They want to cause maximum disruption, not minimum disruption.

Texas estimates that 1.4 million legal voters DO NOT have an ID that will be accepted at the polls. The state had to agree to supply free IDs, but as of the election this week, it had sent out only 41 of them in the entire state.

It is also estimated that 2%-3% of eligible voters will be prevented from voting by the new ID law, and that's a conservative estimate. That translates to 157,000 to 235,500 legal voters disenfranchised in Texas alone.http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/1 ... ree-voter/